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Oliver LodgePioneers of Science (August 31, 2010)

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Librivox recording of Pioneers of Science by Oliver Lodge.
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This book takes its origin in a course of lectures on the history and progress of Astronomy arranged for Sir Oliver Lodge in the year 1887. The first part of this book is devoted to the biographies and discoveries of well known astronomers like Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, Galileo and Newton. In the second part, the biographies take a back seat, while scientific discoveries are discussed more extensively, like the discovery of Asteroids and Neptune, a treatise on the tides and others. (Summary by Availle)

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Artist/Composer: Oliver Lodge
Date: 2010-08-31
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: librivox; audiobooks; science; astronomy; history of astronomy; astronomers

Creative Commons license: Public Domain


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00 Preface 2.2 MB
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01 Lecture I: Copernicus and the Motion of the Earth 38.2 MB
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02 Lecture II: Tycho Brahe and the Earliest Observatory 29.5 MB
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03 Lecture III: Kepler and the Laws of Planetary Motion 46.9 MB
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04 Lecture IV: Galileo and the Invention of the telescope 37.0 MB
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05 Lecture V: Galileo and the Inquisition 38.3 MB
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06 Lecture VI: Descartes and his Theory of Vortices 42.7 MB
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07 Lecture VII: Sir Isaac Newton 35.0 MB
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08 Lecture VIII: Newton and the Law of Gravitation 34.3 MB
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09 Lecture IX: Newton's 50.8 MB
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10 Lecture X: Roemer & Bradley and the Velocity of Light 35.9 MB
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11 Lecture XI: Lagrange and Laplace - The Stability of the Solar System, and the Nebular Hypothesis 30.3 MB
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12 Lecture XII: Herschel and The Motion of the Fixed Stars 29.5 MB
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13 Lecture XIII: The Discovery of the Asteriods 14.9 MB
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14 Lecture XIV: Bessel - The Distance of the Stars, and the Discovery of Stellar Planets 26.7 MB
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15 Lecture XV: The Discovery of Neptune 21.5 MB
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16 Lecture XVI: Comets and Meteors 31.2 MB
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17 Lecture XVII: The Tides 34.5 MB
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18 Lecture XVIII: The Tides, and Planetary Evolution 38.1 MB
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